Indian economy has seen tremendous growth in IT and ITES sector, and much of it can be attributed to the emergence of domestic market. So what are the development enablers that build the sector and the opportunities around it?

The Department Of Telecom has come up with some groundbreaking changes to the current licensing scheme according to which four types of licenses would be issued instead of the current Unified Access Service License and operators would be required to renew their licenses every ten years.

The budget had it’s impact stated on the telecom sector too. According to the Indian Cellular Association, from now on all the Mobile Phone handsets that are directly imported into India will be expensive by about 5 per cent of their existing market prices.

The 3G rollout to various parts of India has gradually begun and users all over India can now finally start experiencing fast mobile Internet speeds via 3G. Airtel has announced it’s plans of launching 3G service for it’s users in less than a week and Tata DOCOMO, after jumping onto the 3G Bandwagon quite early, has now unveiled it’s 3G services in yet another Indian state – Karnataka.

Power Grid plans to lease out 10 – 15% of it’s one lakh electricity transmission towers to independent tower firms and telecom service providers in order to provide telecom services in remote and rural areas of India.

In order to make broadband internet available to millions of subscribers, the Department of Telecom (DoT) has suggested that BSNL’s last-mile copper lines could be unbundled to private operators. This will also bring additional revenue for BSNL and make broadband internet available to people where BSNL is not able to reach currently.

Aircel has launched a first of it’s kind tele-healthcare delivery service for mobile phones in association with the Apollo Hospitals Group. Aimed at addressing the healthcare needs of the masses through tele-medicine, this service provides online interactive healthcare in real-time basis by utilising modern technology and telecommunications.